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Bulletin 423 October 2010 Registered Charity No: 272098 ISSN 0585-9980 SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY CASTLE ARCH, GUILDFORD GU1 3SX Tel/ Fax: 01483 532454 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk Bulletin 423 October 2010 FARNHAM CASTLE KEEP Audrey Graham looks down the shaft from the new viewing platform FARNHAM CASTLE KEEP David Graham BACKGROUND Many people will be surprised to hear that the shell keep we see today at Farnham Castle is not the first to have been built on the site, but is actually a later 12th century replacement for an earlier tower keep. One of the problems facing the second generation of Norman castle masons in England was how to replace timber defences with stone ones, given the problems of putting heavy stone structures on relatively unconsolidated earthen mottes (the name given to the earth mounds of early Norman castles). While there is no evidence that there were ever timber defences at Farnham, the earliest tower keep shows one approach to solving the problem of providing a stable foundation, while at the same time protecting the base of the building from attack. THE ARCHAEOLOGY The castle is generally considered to be one of the finest examples of a motte and bailey castle in southern England and was owned for virtually the whole of its existence by the bishops of Winchester. Unsurprisingly, therefore, the castle has a long and complex history. That history became even more complicated when excavations on the keep under Dr Michael Thompson in the late 1950s produced dramatic evidence for the survival of the massive lower section of a square stone tower buried within the soil of the motte. Dating from the early 12th century this tower/keep must have originally risen high above the top of the earth motte to dominate the little settlement of Farnham below. From later documentary evidence, the above ground section of the tower seems to have been demolished at the end of the Anarchy period on the orders of Henry II. The surviving buried 14.5m deep shaft was then brought back into use as a well, following the construction of the walls of the still extant shell keep towards the end of the 12th century. All memory of the original tower was lost after the 16th century, when the shaft was filled in, and following the Civil War the abandoned shell keep became the site of a pleasure garden. Following various changes of ownership the keep came under the control of the Ministry of Works after the Second World War, and this was the body which commissioned the excavations that rediscovered the buried section of the original early 12th century tower. At the end of the excavations the shaft and its surrounding masonry flange were protected by a covering of concrete, though a viewing platform was hung in the upper part of the shaft to allow visitors to look down into the black and uninviting hole beneath them. Basically resembling a cross between a helicopter landing pad and the entrance to a Second World War bunker, the Ministry of Works ‘improvements’, if anything, detracted from the visitor ‘experience’, and combined with a lack of much in the way of explanatory panels it is doubtful whether any visitors to the keep over the last fifty years or so, have come away with any idea of the complex and exciting early history of the site. It was to remedy this situation that the current occupiers of the castle, the Centre for International Briefing, applied last year for a Heritage Lottery Fund grant to replace the 1960’s concrete slab with a timber pavilion to hopefully resemble the 13th century well house mentioned in the account rolls, and to improve the interpretation of the site for visitors. As part of the Scheduled Monument Consent for this work, English Heritage required a preliminary examination of the site to determine whether the concrete slab could be broken up without damage to the underlying medieval stonework, and that any subsequent works should be monitored and archaeologically recorded. Both the preliminary examination and the recording work was carried out by Audrey and David Graham with the considerable help of Andrew Norris. 2 The buried structure that Dr Thompson had discovered, consisted of a square tower, with walls 3m thick and an internal dimension of just over 3m at the base, widening slightly further up the building. At the highest level an external flange had been added around the tower walls to form a square base with sides of 15.6m - probably to underpin buttresses supporting the above ground structure. Particularly interesting was the fact that the external face of the, now buried, walls had been plastered, which must mean that the tower had originally been free standing and that the earth motte had been added around it - probably in stages as building rose. There were certainly no signs of windows or doors within the shaft to give any indication that the intention had ever been other than to Sketch of shaft stonework by Andrew Norris. bury the structure within the motte. There are very few parallels for this type of construction - the closest in size being Goltho castle in Lincolnshire - though Farnham is the largest example of this type of military architecture. Elsewhere the problem of constructing stone buildings on unstable earth mottes was overcome in various ways, eg. as at Guildford, by the rather unsatisfactory expedient of inserting the tower into the side of the motte. While achieving a stable base for the footings, this, of course, left the stonework of the tower exposed and vulnerable to attack. At Farnham, the foundations of the tower are not only firmly set on the underlying chalk, but the base of the tower is well protected by the surrounding earth of the motte. Farnham was therefore at the forefront of Norman castle design in the early 12th century, as befitted a property of the bishops of Winchester - amongst the richest aristocrats in England. While the recent recording work has done nothing to change the basic interpretation of the site put forward by Thompson, a number of details have been added to our knowledge of the buried structure. A photographic record has been made of the internal walls of the shaft, making use of the temporary scaffolding put in place while the pavilion was being constructed - making the descent a somewhat dark and hair- raising experience for those of us who suffer from vertigo! At the very base of the shaft, below the original ground surface, we recorded previously unnoticed relieving arches in the north west and south east walls as well as a series of putlog or joist holes that perhaps had supported a floor about 3.3m above the lowest level of the tower. There were ashlar quoins in the two northern corners and the walls were constructed of chalk blocks, including reused stones from some earlier building, all set in a sandy mortar. The walls, which had had a 3 supporting concrete ring-beam inserted in 1960, rested on the natural stiff decayed chalk layer that lies just above the solid chalk that underlies the ridge on which the castle is built. There was no sign of the filled in well found by Thompson, that no doubt continues many metres downwards to the water table, nor of the earlier ditch that he also found running under the base of the tower. Both were hidden under the 50 years of detritus that had accumulated since the shaft was emptied. Some 2m above the possible joist holes a crumbling single band of stonework projects into the shaft on all sides. This was interpreted by Thompson as marking the original ground surface and being the main footings for the tower - below this level being a later insert, possibly intended to stabilise the wellhead. From the projecting stonework upwards, the Conjectural reconstruction of section quality of the surviving ashlar improved through motte (after Michael Thompson). greatly and indeed the quoins were very finely carved and neatly fitted together. It seems quite possible that another floor level had existed at this point and a further one higher up where the walls of the shaft expanded slightly leaving a narrow platform on all sides. There was presumably a fourth floor, level with the surface of the motte and an unknown number of rooms higher up the tower. In any event so far as the shaft is concerned, it is possible that there were at least two buried rooms in the original tower, with a possible third one at the base, if Thompson is right in assuming that the lowest level was added after the main construction work had been completed. Quite how the whole structure functioned in its later incarnation as a well shaft is uncertain. References in the medieval account rolls to boys being paid to descend into the shaft to recover lost well ropes, implies that the shaft was open during that period and that therefore any flooring had been wholly or partially removed. Quite how the boys reached the bottom and then got out again is anyone’s guess - but they certainly earned their halfpennies. Photographs and accompanying notes, taken by Andrew Norris, will be deposited with the Society’s archives at Guildford Museum as a permanent record of the internal stonework of the shaft. In addition, samples were taken of the mortar from various points and will hopefully be analysed by English Heritage to see whether there is any chance of linking the phases of the various parts of the structure. To give one example, there was a band of pinkish mortar surrounding the head of the shaft, and this might possibly be the work undertaken in 1264 at a cost of over £3 to repair the top of the well.
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